Given most newspapers' parlous finances, this seems implausible.(鑒于多數報社的財務窘境，這個方案似乎不太可行。)

These Kinetoscope arcades were modeled on phonograph parlous, which had proven successful for Edison several years earlier.(這些電影播放廳是仿照留聲機播放廳設計的，這也證明了愛迪生前幾年的設計非常成功。)

Which is hardly surprising, perhaps, given the increasingly parlous state of their respective careers - not to mention the trio's equally disastrous private lives.(鑒于這三位的藝途日趨艱難，聚會的氣氛演變或許不足為奇----這還沒算他們各自糟糕透頂的個人生活呢。)

His advisers seem to have concluded that a climate bill was a non-starter given the parlous state of the economy, and concentrated on health care instead.(他的顧問團似乎已經做下定論：在這種經濟困難時期，在氣候法案上的努力終將是徒勞，因而將注意力投向醫療法案。)

How you judge him on the former depends in part on how much you deem him responsible for Britain's parlous situation in the first place.(如何根據前者判斷他，首先取決于你認為他對英國的危機有多大責任。)

For a long time, the parlous state of the economy was the main issue.(長期以來，危機四伏的經濟一直人們關注的重心。)

Mr Geithner, whose job is far more visible than Mr Summers, is in the more parlous position because of his rocky relationship with Congress.(比薩默爾先生的工作更可見的是蓋特納先生的工作，由于與國會不穩定的關系導致他陷入一個危險的境地。)

They had a parlous journey on stormy seas.(他們在風暴海洋上進行了一次危險的旅行。)

The parlous state of current yarn testing facilities is described.(介紹了目前長絲測試中存在的問題；)

China's water supply, too, is in a parlous state, thanks to ever-increasing industrial and agricultural use.(中國的水供應也是危機四伏，這是因為不斷增長的工業和農業用水。)

Chapman's business affairs were in such a parlous state..he could pay her nothing.